Expecting Rain

photo by katie t

Like a dog

Chasing its tail

You followed me around.

You followed me down

The driveway, overgrown,

Led beyond the line of light.

Trees singing, groaning,

The storm covered us

Like a blanket my mother 

Bought and sold

To the Mexican lady next door.

Summer nights I'd leave

My window open to the sound

Of lightning and the flash of

Thunder in the distance like

Cannons unrestrained,

Blowing past

And present into

My bedroom, full of

Light as the wind

Whipping through the garden

Left me breathless.

You left me like a dog

In the field, overgrown

With questions only

Whispered to the trees, and the moon

Stood on its head

With a halo of ice 

Cold and distant, years away

From where we started.

You left me at the end

Of the driveway in my passivity.

You left me expecting rain.